My thoughts on defense.

08/05/2017

For most of my life there have been proposals to replace the TF33 engines of the B-52 fleet with a more modern turbofan. For various reasons, that hasn't happened. But the idea is currently gaining steam again, and Boeing has released a short video on some of the benefits of replacing the engines. Of course, the first benefit (as far as Boeing is concerned) is securing work for Boeing.

In addition to improved range and reduced maintenance, one factor I'm surprised the Boeing add didn't mention was the option to greatly increase electrical power production. The advanced avionics and jammers on a B-52 suck up a lot of electrons, and it will only increase in future years.

An Iraqi muhammedan shoots six people in a nightclub in the lovely little city of Konstanz, Germany, near the Swiss border. He was shot by Polizei at the scene, and died at the hospital.

German Poliziei, of course, "ruled out terrorism". As was done at Fort Hood, Orlando, Munich, and the scene of several other muhammedan shootings, bombings, and mass murders.

BERLIN (Reuters) - An Iraqi gunman died in a shootout with German police early on Sunday after killing one person in a nightclub in the southern city of Konstanz, police said, ruling out terrorism as a motive.

Police said the gunman had lived in Germany for a number of years and was not an asylum seeker. They added that a dispute among criminals may have led to the shooting in an industrial area of the city.

If I recall correctly, the planners of the London subway attacks were, among other things, physicians and professionals who had been in Britain for many years. The Boston bombers were US citizens.

Angela Merkel, like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is actively participating in the destruction of Western society, deliberately allowing for the mass influx of elements that promise our annihilation. All the while, Merkel and her cabal give those elements free reign to do so, while acting as apologists for the Islamist-perpetrated slaughter.

Criminal dispute? One day we will be told to refer to 9/11 as an aviation mishap.

And in the "You gotta be shitting me" department, we have this gem of dissonance and denial:

“We must take into account that the jihadist ideology is used as reason or justification for acts that are perhaps committed for quite different motives,” German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a member of the CDU party, said in a statement. “The real motives can then also lie in the personality of the attacker.”

Perhaps Mr. de Maiziere might feel differently if he was forced to look for the mutilated body of a loved one in a Paris theater, or a Brussels airport, or a London subway, or under a truck in Nice. Or any of a hundred places where these filthy, hateful muhammedan monsters have killed or maimed the innocent. But I doubt it, as the CDU Party has been supplicant to Merkel's grand plan to seed these violent jihadists across the European Union.

That Donald Trump identified Islamist extremists as among America's enemies in his Inauguration speech is a tremendous step in the right direction. We have had enough of the Thomas de Maiziere approach, which is indistinguishable from the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders approach. Of course, it WON'T be their loved ones in a Brussels airport or a San Bernadino office or an Orlando bar. Or a New York office building.